7 Habits of Highly Hypocritical People:
If you did not get all of the blanks for last week here they are....
The focal scriptures were Matthew 23: 2-7 & Matthew 23: 13-33
Hypocrite: one who pretends to be what he is not, assuming a position of piety when in reality he is destitute of genuine faith, acting the part of being close to God when in reality his heart is very far from HIM.
7 Habits of Highly Hypocritical People:
1. Making salvation as complicated as possible
2. Getting what I need from people even if it hurts them
- To be indifferent to the impact my conduct has, makes me a hypocrite
- If I give my word, I keep it. If I make a promise , I keep it.
- Justice: doing what's right
- Faithfulness: keep going
- Mercy: going a little easier on people - James 2:13
- Laziness in matters of the heart: not willing to expend the energy in the things that matter most
- Greed: I can't get enough .
- Self-indulgence: I have no restraint in the consumption of what I have.
- We are who we are when no one can see us. That is the true (me-you-us)
6. Looking good to others, no matter what the cost
7. Pretending to be better than others, no matter what the evidence
- A lifetime of unrepentant hypocrisy reveals that a person has never truly been born again
